Dinner with a Vampire
Dinner with a Vampire (Italian: A cena col vampiro) is a 1989 Italian television horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti. It was among four films made for the Italian television series Brivido Giallo.
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Italian | A cena col vampiro[1] |
Genre | Horror[2] |
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Story by | Luciano Martino[1] |
Directed by | Lamberto Bava[1] |
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Original language(s) | Italian |
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Running time | 92 minutes[1][3] |
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Original network | Italia 1[4] |
Original release | August 29, 1989 |
Plot
Four actors win an audition to be in a horror movie and travel to the director's castle for a meeting and to spend the night. Unbeknown to them the director is actually a vampire. The vampire challenges his guests to kill him. Killing this vampire however is achieved only in a unique way.
Cast
- George Hilton as Jurek
- Riccardo Rossi as Gianni
- Patrizia Pellegrino as Rita
- Yvonne Sciò as Monica
- Valeria Milillo as Sasha
- Isabel Russinova as Jurek's half vampire companion
Production
Following the success of the film Demons and Demons 2 and other foreign horror films in Italy, the company Reiteitalia would announce in July 1986 that a series titled Brivido giallo which would be made featuring five made-for-television film directed by Lamberto Bava.[3] Of these films only four would be made: Graveyard Disturbance, Until Death, The Ogre and Dinner with a Vampire.[3] The films were shot between 1987 and 1988.[3] Dinner with a Vampire was shot at Castle Sammezzano near Florence, Italy.[5]
Italian film historian Roberto Curti described Dinner with a Vampire as being more openly a parody film compared to Bava's other films made in the series.[5]
Release
Dinner with a Vampire aired on Italia 1 on August 29, 1989.[1][3]
References
Footnotes
- Curti 2019, p. 199.
- Buchanan, Jason. "Dinner With a Vampire". AllMovie. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- Curti 2019, p. 200.
- Curti 2019.
- Curti 2019, p. 201.
Sources
- Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 1476672431.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)